accord
Definitions
noun
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen.
a mediator of an accord and peace between them
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
the accord of light and shade in painting
A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees.
Fougères are built on an accord between lavender and coumarin, with every conceivable variation and elaboration.
An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account
verb
To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
[H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […]
To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […]
All which Particulars (with many more of the like Nature) being confeſſedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded, but by a competent Stock of critical Learning; […]
To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […]
Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words / To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart / Conteins of good, wiſe, juſt, the perfect ſhape.
To agree in pitch and tone.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw That column, and those corpses, and the moon, And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […]
In respect of the protection of industrial property,[…]a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.